re: Should we dissolve the Army and Marines since no one wants boots on the ground ever again?

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We’ve been a volunteer military since 1973. No one held a gun to these guys’ heads when they signed the dotted line. They willingly chose to serve with no obligation.

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Some joined because of false propaganda.

There are only two instances in American history where Americans have truly fought for “freedom” - the Revolutionary War and the war for Southern Independence. WWI was based on lies (sinking of the Lusitania), and so was Vietnam.

Pearl Harbor justified our entry into WWII, but there is evidence out there that U.S. intel was aware long before the attack of the threat and that nothing substantial was done to prevent it. The implication is that the U.S. government was prepared to enter the war and needed a compelling reason.

9/11 was not the act of a country, but a terrorist network. Letters of marque and reprisal should have been issued to capture bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Not spend 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What “bombing away” of North Korean nuclear program? Do you know something everyone else doesn’t??

Innocent mistake. I do think it might raise a salient point, however. Which is, this being just my opinion I suppose, that the two situations, those of Iran and NoKo, are of course of similar subject matter, but distinct in some rather significant and consequential ways. Distinct enough to render it unreasonable and unrealistic to compare one “against” the other.

This is a ridiculous line of thinking and is usually an opinion harbored by people who never served.

I stood watch during the Cold War and I can tell you none of us wanted diplomacy to fail to a point where nukes would be exchanged (which was a certainty if we used forced on the USSR).

The likelihood of escalation is inevitable in this day and age, which not only needlessly kills Americans with families, but civilians who can’t escape a combat zone.

Just not for Israels War

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Most Americans join the service to protect and defend the United States of America.

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I kinda doubt that. Military is a last resort or only option for many people.

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Just because we aren’t geographically close to them doesn’t matter.

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It matters quite a bit actually. Iran possesses no ICBMs and they lack the budget to develop them. Likewise, China and Russia will never supply Iran with ICBMs because they know what a nuclear-armed Iran with the capability of reaching the United States will mean for the global economy.

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I have been paying attention

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Then you are just stupid.

Because nothing you have posted yet addresses the statement.